Quotes and Sayings About Fifty
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The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.
-- Adolf Eichmann -
We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
-- Adolf Galland -
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
-- Albert Einstein -
When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.
-- Albert Payson Terhune -
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-- Alfred Bester -
Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
-- Allan Gurganus -
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
-- Andre Malraux -
...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
-- Anne Fortier -
No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,†browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
-- Anthony Lane -
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.
-- Barbara Cartland -
There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
-- Barry N. Malzberg -
Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.
-- Basil McRae -
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
-- Ben Affleck -
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'
-- Bill Nighy -
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
-- Camille Pissarro -
I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.
-- Carla Gugino -
Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
-- Chuck Barris -
Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.
-- Clarence DeMar -
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
-- Clement Attlee -
Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.
-- Clifford Stoll -
Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.
-- Dakota Johnson -
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.
-- David Nicholls -
I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
-- Davy Jones
